“Emotion, uncertainty, hope and fear” was how one Guadalajara radio commentator summed up the mixed mood of the nation this week, just days before Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador takes the oath of office as the next president of Mexico.

Robin Matthewman, the new United States Consul General in Guadalajara, advises U.S. citizens who are traveling or living in Mexico to do themselves a favor by registering with the U.S. State Department’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP).

President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will depend on Mexico’s military as a key element of his public security strategy despite his previous fierce criticism of the policies of the country’s past two presidents deploing soldiers and marines in law-enforcement duties.

Despite the controversy surrounding last month’s public referendum on the future of the new Mexico City airport, President-elect Andres Manual Lopez Obrador intends to repeat the exercise.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman goes on trial in Brooklyn, New York, November 13 in one of the most anticipated legal happenings of the year.

A row has broken out after Nicolas Maduro, the polemic president of Venezuela, accepted an invitation to attend the December 1 inauguration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as the next president of Mexico.